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Just after 2 p.m. on Weds., Jan. 20, Jack Bishop stepped under a yellow tent planted on the lawn of the Dekalb County Courthouse. The tent — and seven others grouped around it — was the home of a protest that Bishop had learned about over the radio, while he was riding the bus between the Atlanta VA Medical Center on Clairmont Road and his home in Panthersville.

image-1If state Sen. Vincent Fort, D-Atlanta, has his way, PARKAtlanta would kiss its ticket-writing days goodbye. MARTA, not City Hall, would call the shots on the Atlanta Streetcar. And that $10 million pedestrian bridge that would be built near Mercedes-Benz Stadium? The state cash to build it would be spent elsewhere, he says.